PM Orbán holds talks with CEO of conservative Tikvah Fund Israel
PM Orbán and Cohen’s meeting was also attended by Balázs Orbán, the PM’s political director and chairman of the MCC’s board of trustees.
PM Orbán and Cohen’s meeting was also attended by Balázs Orbán, the PM’s political director and chairman of the MCC’s board of trustees.
Here we go again: A German leftist media outlet is calling Hungary anti-Semitic when running out of things to say.
The celebration of Hanukkah — the Festival of Light — goes back to the Jewish retaking of the Temple of Jerusalem from the Greeks in 165 BC.
209 members of the underground Zionist youth movements that operated during the second world war in Hungary have been honored.
Hungary maintained zero-tolerance against anti-Semitism, regardless of whether they are connected to the extreme right, extreme left, Jihadists or anti-Israeli sentiments.
András Heisler said the survivors of the Holocaust would soon all be gone “and we’ll be left to ourselves with the duty and curse of remembrance”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has highlighted how Martin Schulz "has been attacking Hungary for years" for defending its borders and refusing to accept migrants.
Several Jewish leaders have slammed László Bíró, a joint candidate of the opposition, for his anti-Semitic and racist statements.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the Jewish community is safe in Hungary.
The federation of Hungarian Jewish communities (Mazsihisz) and Budapest’s Jewish community BZSH have decided to close down synagogues in the capital for two weeks due to a positive coronavirus case.
Balázs Hidvéghi said although anti-Semitism in Europe’s western countries is growing, Jews in Hungary live in safety.
The government’s measures over the past nine years helped create a milieu in which there is an “unprecedented blossoming of Jewish culture … and security”.
“As in the previous years, I wish you this time again that the light of the Hanukkah candles remind you of the eternal power that holds a community together,” the prime minister said.